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In these versions (1.x) - as was stated - Microsoft will fill the gaps of the core functionality and fix bugs. Also test more Linux distros and some compatibility with existing projects... I would say, that these are real improvements, but the true improvement is the fact that .NET came out of its shell and start taking new positions...

Kill the King! Long live the King! err, UML. No, just kill it already.

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

Hey, look, it's a function that adds two numbers together and returns the result sum.
It's just that most people you have to explain code to don't want to know it at this (low) level.
Plus, code often becomes more complex than that and many devs are lazy.

Except for later when something goes wrong and someone says, "Why didn't we try X?"
Dev: "Well, I went down that path?"
Mgr: "Are you sure? Because I think X will fix this entirely."
Dev: "I'm fairly sure, but well, I guess we can try it."
If only we had a copy of that whiteboard thing that we decided not to try.
Been there, done that.

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Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun

The spacecraft arrived at the Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, which is about 4km on its longest side, in 2014. It became the first mission to orbit around a comet, and, with its small Philae lander, the first to touch down on a comet’s surface.